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| Mark Ruffalo, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts, and Laura Dern in We Don't Live Here Anymore |
Cast: Mark Ruffalo. Laura Dern, Peter Krause, Naomi Watts, Sam Charles, Ginger Page, Jennifer Bishop, Amber Rothwell, Meg Roe, Jim Francis, Marc Baur, Patrick Earley. Screenplay: Larry Gross, based on stories by Andre Dubus. Cinematography: Maryse Alberti. Production design: Tony Devenyi. Film editing: Alexandre de Franceschi. Music: Michael Convertino.
Even a quartet of accomplished actors can't save John Curran's We Don't Live Here Anymore from the fact that none of the characters they play is interesting enough to elicit our concern about what happens to them. The Lindens, Jack (Mark Ruffalo) and Terry (Laura Dern), and the Evanses, Hank (Peter Krause) and Edith (Naomi Watts), are thirtysomethings living in a town where Jack and Hank teach at the local college. Jack and Edith are having an affair, and the tensions their sneaking around causes eventually drive Terry into a reciprocal affair with Hank. At some point it occurred to me that these marital disputes were really none of my business, and that I didn't really care if or how they worked things out. The film tries to keep us involved, laying on Michael Convertino's melancholy score to elicit emotions that the screenplay fails to inspire, but in the end I was left with nothing but the pleasure of watching actors act.
